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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Yar’Adua: Soyinka, Ojukwu, Musa to lead mass protest


All appears set for a mass rally on Tuesday in Abuja to protest against President Umaru Yar’Adua’s failure to transfer power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan, 49 days after he travelled out of the country for treatment in Saudi Arabia.

Those lined up to lead and speak at the rally tagged ‘Enough is enough’ include Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; former Kaduna State governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa; the Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and Pastor of the Later Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare.

Others are Mallam Farouk Adamu, Mr. Solomon Asemota (SAN), Mallam Uba Sani, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), Hajiya Najatu Mohammed, Prof. Pat Utomi, Pastor Sarah Omakwu, Mr. Femi Falana, Mr. Olawale Oshun, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, Mrs. Ayo Obe, Mallam Naseer Kura, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, Mr. Uche Onyeogocha, and Mr. Clement Nwankwo, among others.

Coming together under the aegis of ‘Save Nigeria Group,’ the protesters are also expected to press against what they described as power vacuum in the country, vacillation over electoral reforms, terror tag on Nigerians and corruption. READ MORE

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